Market Report for September 6, 2019Wow, another busy night for the Toledo Farmers' Market. The customers were plentiful along with the vendors. With the blow of the whistle and the hustle of the customers the tables soon started to appear bare. We are very lucky to have such awesome vendors ...
Over the years things change, don't they? The Chelsea of 1960 is a whole lot different than today. But that's the way life is...........always evolving, always changing in some way, shape or form. Many times the older we get them more we probably don't like the changes. But we all adapt and ...
Confess it! You'd done some insane things under the authorization of the DOT's failure to spot someone who shouldn't be drivingwell, let me speak for myself, anyway. Charging out of the garage one day, I forgot that I hadn't raise the garage door high enough. Then you spend the rest of that ...
Market Report for August 30, 2019It was another busy, entertaining night at the Toledo Farmers' Market. Iowa Premium. a National Company. was back grilling hamburgers on the large grill. Phil Shipley from Marshalltown was playing his guitar on the bandstand entertaining the crowd. All the ...
I'm not in the mood to write this column today but I know I must.Our family said goodbye to our eldest son Jimmy. He came down from Marshalltown to the Wieting almost every Friday to see the movie if it was one he wanted to see. He loved his hometown and the Wieting.I need to move on to the ...
In the past couple of months I've returned to the Tama-Toledo area a couple of times In July, Deb and I returned to celebrate our 50th Class Reunion. Hard to believe, it has been fifty years since the best class every from South Tama graduated. It probably wasn't a scientific poll but ...
Market Report for August 23, 2019What a night the Toledo Farmers' Market had on this Friday night? Picture this, twenty two vendors were set up ready to sell, in front of the bandstand Iowa Premium, a National Company had a huge tent set up with hamburgers grilling on the large grill, smoke ...
For many, it's nothing to hum a tune, whistle a song or sing a melody. But there are people who couldn't carry a tune without a radical, vocal transplant. They're my crowd. About the time we remember most of the tune, we've forgotten lots of the words; sowe make them up! In a quartet, we're ...
I understand the dedication or "Open House" is scheduled for Sunday, September 8 at the theatre. The time is either 2 p.m. or 3 p.m.There are some special things planned that will be announced in an article by the theatre guild.We hope everyone will try and attend.This one is for you ...
Well, guess what? Summer heat is officially here because school is now open. Never fails! Oh well, nothing we can do about it here in the great state of Iowa. Avid or voracious readers of this column will quickly notice that this is my third column about going back to school. Ok, so you don't ...